WBAI

New York City radio station
Organization radio_station Q1651267
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WBAI

Summary

WBAI is a radio station[1]. WBAI ranks in the top 1% of radio_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (175 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • WBAI received the Laurel Leaf Award[3].
  • WBAI was a member of Grassroots Radio Coalition[4].
  • WBAI is located in New York[5].
  • WBAI is in the country of United States[6].
  • WBAI's instance of is recorded as radio station[7].
  • WBAI is owned by Pacifica Radio[8].
  • WBAI's Commons category is recorded as WBAI[9].
  • WBAI's original broadcaster is recorded as Pacifica Radio[10].
  • January 8, 1960 marks the founding of WBAI[11].
  • WBAI's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 40.748, 'longitude': -73.986, 'precision': 0.001}[12].
  • WBAI's official website is recorded as http://www.wbai.org/[13].
  • WBAI's licensed to broadcast to is recorded as New York City[14].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • MusicBrainz ID: 5207646c-f68a-4f47-9b32-a8b91cfbec12[15]

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Founding

January 8, 1960 marks the founding of WBAI[11].

Ownership

WBAI is owned by Pacifica Radio[8].

Recognition

WBAI received the Laurel Leaf Award[3].

Why It Matters

WBAI ranks in the top 1% of radio_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (175 views/month).[2]

FAQs

What awards did WBAI receive?

Honors received include Laurel Leaf Award[3].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [4] . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [15] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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